Current Students

Ph.D. Students

Masters Students

Certificate Students

Yukina Benitz

Ph.D.

Bio

Yukina has been employed as a Senior Customer Insights Developer at the Oriental Trading Company in Omaha. Very much on the
market research side, she handles every survey Oriental Trading sends out from designing to reporting, and organize focus groups whenever
there is a need. She does things such as data analysis work and builds predictive models. She manages outside research vendors when it comes
to customers' voice and consolidates everything together to give data supported advice to the executive teams.

Jinyoung Lee

Bio

Jinyoung Lee is a Ph.D. student in the program of Survey Research and Methodology (SRAM). As a Graduate Research Assistant with the UNL-Gallup Research Center, she is currently working on paradata obtained from telephone surveys to examine the interaction of interviewers and respondents.

Jinyoung earned her B.A. in Economics and Applied Statistics from Yonsei University, and her M.A. in Women’s Studies from Ewha Womans University in South Korea. Before joining the SRAM program, she participated in several research projects examining gender-related topics such as prostitution, sexual violence, migrant women, and runaway girls. In the long term, she is interested in mixed methods research on asking sensitive questions.

Journal/Conference papers presented:

Lee, J. & Belli, R.F. (2017). Does relation of retrieval pathways to data quality differ by self or proxy
response status? Paper presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Lee, J. (2017). Event History Calendar Interviewing Dynamics and Data Quality in the Survey of Income and Program
Participation. Paper presented at the Iowa State University Research Data Center Workshop, Ames, IA.

Lee, J. & Belli, R.F. (2016). Does relation of retrieval pathways to data quality differ by self or proxy
response status? Paper presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference, Austin, TX.

Lee, J. (2013). Daily experience of depression as an indicator of societal insecurity: The Sahel and Western
Asia. Paper presented at the Gallup/UNL Symposium, Omaha, NE.

Oluwafisayo Opeoluwa Adeniyan

Bio

Oluwafisayo is a master's student in the Survey Research and Methodology program. Before joining the program, Oluwafisayo received his Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Biochemistry from Olabisi Onabanjo University and Federal University of Technology Akure Nigeria respectively. Oluwafisayo is enthusiastic about the SRAM program because of his view of survey data analysis as a critically veritable tool for unbiased decision making with a multifaceted interdisciplinary application in diverse fields of business, marketing, education, governance, and healthcare. He aims to become a top research cum data analyst at the end of the program.

Xuan (Shawn) Dai

Bio

Shawn is a masters student in the Survey Research and Methodology program. As a graduate research assistant with the Department of Health and Human Services, she concentrates on enhancing consumer big data collection and analysis with survey methodology. Before joining SRAM, Shawn had 3 years professional experience as market researcher at GfK, Beijing, completed undergraduate degree of Economics at Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics.

Anthony Shin

Bio

Anthony is a master's student in the Survey Research and Methodology program. He received his B.A. in Computer Science from Dankook University in Seoul, South Korea and his MBA degree from Thunderbird School of Global Business in Arizona. Before joining the SRAM program, he worked at Deloitte Consulting as a business strategy consultant and at Hanwha Group as a strategy advisor in the headquarter. At UNL, he is working in the Clifton Strengths Institute as a research assistant. He is interested in measurement error, non-response adjustment, and the use of technology in survey research.

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Mengyang (Mia) Wang

Bio

Mia Wang is a third-year Ph.D. student at the department of Survey Research and Methodology. Mia received her M.S. degree in SRAM at the University of Nebraska -Lincoln, completed undergraduate degree of Mass Communication and Statistics at the East Tennessee State University. Wang’s research since the 2012 is concerned with the data quality for Gallup Web Panel and Gallup World Poll including mode effects of mobile web surveys on data quality and Cross-Cultural Survey.

Mengyang Wang, Allan McCutcheon and Laura Allen. (2015). Grids and Online Panels: A Comparison of Device
Type from a Survey Quality Perspective. Accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the American Association for
Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). Hollywood, FL.

Mengyang Wang, Allan McCutcheon and Allison Burke. (2015). Culturally-Related Response Styles for Attitude
Questions: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and American Respondents. Accepted for presentation at the annual conference of
the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). Hollywood, FL.

Mengyang Wang. (2014). An Investigation of Survey Satisficing among Devices to Complete a Survey: Comparing
Computers and Mobile-Devices. Presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research
(AAPOR). Anaheim, CA.

Mengyang Wang. (2014). Public Perception Changes toward Real Estate Consumption in China: A Comparative
Analysis of 2006 and 2009. Presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research
(AAPOR). Anaheim, CA.

Mengyang Wang and Allan McCutcheon. (2014). The use of Paradata on Likert-type scales. Presented at
UNL/SRAM/Gallup Symposium. Omaha, NE.

Steve McMasters

Bio

Steve is a certificate student in the Survey, Research and Methodology Program. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied computer science. He recently worked on writing a computer-based survey application to administer alcohol and drug assessment surveys. He is currently working for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Institutional Research and Planning department and is a member of the UNL Insight Reporting Group.